The Indian Health Service, on the other hand, was guarded about H.R.3229,
the Indian Health Service Advance Appropriations Act. The bill appropriates
funds for the Indian Health Service
for two years in advance but deputy director Elizabeth Fowler didn't say what the agency thought of the bill until she was asked directly by Rep. Don
Young (R-Alaska), the chairman of the subcommittee, and even then she said the Obama administration doesn't have a "formal position" on the matter.